Can I double up on wire?
Doing this on the megawatt made me wonder: I have a bunch of 8/4 wire, nice and flexible, in heavy housing. Could I run 2 pos and 2 neg, and use it for my battery connections? 2x 8ga = what gauge?
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Artum Snowbird wrote:
Sure you can. Can you get all the wires under the lug at both ends though?
Another thing is if one wire is even a little bit longer the current won't be balanced,,, BUT if you have enough wire.. no problem.
IE if you are likely to pull a max of 200 amps, and your wires are rated at 100 amps each, and you ran 3 or 4 of 'em.. NO PROBLEM.
